#Thank you friends for helping

[yzeltia]

I'm sorry if this is random but I need advice from a fellow WOL. I am a FC leader and I've come to the decision that I need to remove inactive members from both my discord and FC. I posted a message today in my FC discord.

We've been an FC since 2021.

I want more active members and I noticed the number of inactive makes new members turn away. I also take into account jobs, rl, et. Does this seem fair? I work at a hospital myself so my hours are iffy but I do try and make times and plan events with my FC, I just want more members to actually do it with instead of like maybe 3 or 4 :/

Hello Anon!

Let me preface this by saying I’m not the leader of my FC. I’m a just a simple adventurer among them and if it seems that way because I write about them a lot, it is only because I love them and their characters and they give me nothing but enrichment to do so. So then, with that said, let’s unpack this ask.

On Removing Inactive Members:

So, a little anecdote. About when I finished ARR, I left the FC that had pulled me in as I only interacted with a couple of people and they wanted to branch out onto their own thing. I offered to found the FC, and so we made it out on our own. Just a tight knit group of not even ten people. We get to Stormblood and suddenly we’re all very busy with our lives. Somewhere in Heavensward I passed over control to the person that was the most responsible of us as I couldn’t afford to play for stretches of time. With that, and us getting busy, and a handful of us mingling in real life the leader felt left out and booted us all. Everything kinda fell apart afterward, pre-discord era (for me). Needless to say there was a bunch of hurt feelings and confusion for those not around or logging in to find themselves dumped. Ultimately, unless there's a behavioral issue or they've quit the game entirely or the FC is disbanding I wouldn't assume to kick people as you don't know what they've got going on and they might miss their friends.

On The Rest:

I cannot really speak to the whole inactive vs. active appeal. Ultimately, I do not think it should matter. Quality of a company is always going to be better than quantity. I was reminded by @driftward that we have a fair amount of incentives. Then there's those of us with several alts! You might delete someone by accident. @autumnslance pointed out that an exception to this might be if you've established in your rules activity as a requirement and specified that you will kick after a certain period of time. 

They also added: “Is someone actually, actively saying that having inactives on the FC roster is hurting recruitment, or is this an assumption based off anecdotal data? If someone is saying that directly...are they really someone you want in a FC of friends? If they're going to determine "inactive" due to whatever reason as a reason to boot someone out without warning?

“[Y]ou get people by doing things and showing people you're a fun and easy to get along with group with similarly aligned goals and personality types. The rest are details.”

That said, you cannot limit yourself to your FC or you're more than likely going to be disappointed. Even in a big FC, people's interests and goals won't always align and needless to say scheduling can get rough. That's why we've been given tools to ensure that we’re able to be social across the game. Use Party Finder when you’re running content with your current core group and then pick up people that you guys get along well with. Create a Crossword Linkshell and add them to it. Our community is vast and there's discord dedicated to all sorts of content in the game to help with Fates, Hunts, Bozja, Eureka, etc etc. @eorziapple suggested if your ultimate goal really is to find a more active environment, maybe it’s best to forgo leadership in favor of joining a more active FC

TLDR: Quality of friends is most important. Don't make assumptions. Use the social tools available to us.

[biscuithoney]

The sillies!

They know Zane, they know...

Based on an interaction between me and my friends.

[nebulanightsky]

Unclemare plays with his niece of her tea party

[stil-lindigo]

the machine.

a comic about being a 'creator' online.

creative notes:

[daily-trey]

K*fi

ACT I: 1 - 2 | ACT 2

[localapparently]

Doksoo week 2024 day 5: time travel

Prompt list here

[softcryz]

「 Round and round it goes. 」

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY IN STARS AND TIME!! This game is absolutely fucking phenomenal and you KNOW I had to conjure up something for it's first birthday. Wipes a tear. They grow up so fast

I HONESTLY WASN'T SURE THAT I WAS GONNA FINISH THIS ONE BUT I SURPRISED MYSELF AND DID!! RIGHT BEFORE THE SIFFRIN PLUSHIE DROPPED TOO!! Sorry I'm excited I haven't done anything big-ish like this in a LOONG time go my screenshots

I have a version of this where it's JUST sasasaapFrin and the star because my sibling said it'd make a good phone background, so I'll throw that in here too :]

[inkly-heart]

[krazieka2]

Here's a big old Fire Emblem Search & Find I did for the FE3H Masquerade Zine! Find the Golden Deer, but see if you can't find the rest of the students as well! For the ultimate challenge, see if you can't name every character! (Disclaimer two characters are NPCs with no names)

[nevermeyers]

I find it very realistic that Megumi wants to try to live for someone else again instead of for himself directly. I mean it. It will take him a long time to recover from what he has suffered, which was too much for a child (because he is still a child!!). At first I thought Megumi was going to pick himself up, but looking at it from another perspective and analyzing my own experience with mental health: it makes sense. Megumi needs help. And he will get it. Yuuji and his friends will teach him to live for himself. The ending of Megumi's character is a new beginning, unlike the others.

Btw, did y'all notice his scars are Sukuna's? The way i'd kms on the spot, poor boy :( he's going to live with the curse of remembering every time he looks on the mirror

[merverelli]

"you just feel yourself let go."

still thinking about this episode. man. 💪💥

[lilybug-02]

You’re making a lot of promises there Chara…

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—Full Series—

I enjoyed doing this little Flashback scene. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled freakout session soon. Having monochrome color is very nice.

Here is a gif of Chara spilling their water because YES. And I spent way too long on it :)

Wow technology is so cool.

[sweetieviktor]

jealous! viktor x reader (headcanons + tiny scenarios)

summary: viktor sees you talking with a friend and get jealous.

content warning: idk if it counts as a cw but jealousy?? also, i made with s1 viktor in mind!

author notes: heyyy, so sorry this one is little, im still trying to find motivation after the end of the series but i think it turned out cute! thank u for the request and hope u like it!! :)

» it was a common sight to see you walking up and down piltover’s academy, working or just chilling on lunch breaks, but every time viktor would approach you, you were already with someone. sometimes an unknown person, other times with a friend, laughing and joking, touching them in such a sweet way, side by side in the aisles.

» he looked at you both, blood boiling and shaky hands. if you looked at him, it was possible to see his lips forming a thin line, brows furrowing, his left eye almost twitching. oh, he was jealous.

» he felt angry at himself to feel like this, he didn't mean to be jealous at all, but he wanted to steal you away, just for a second, and be the one by your side, be the one you smiled to, the one you’ve been touching so sweetly.

» he wanted to reach for you, to interrupt your silly conversation about whatever you two have been talking about, he wanted to share his new discoveries with you, he wanted to be in their place so bad.

» but he couldn't complain, not when you waved a goodbye at your friend, and turned your body, recognizing viktor, eyes lighting up immediately, smiling from ear to ear.

“viktor!”, you shouted, voice echoing in the aisle while you walked to him, “i’ve been looking for you all day. you wouldn't believe what happened!”

he looked at you, expression softening, eyes shining, mimicking yours, his thin lips now turning into a little smile, “yeah? tell me."

» soon all the jealousy melted away, now, he is the one walking by your side.

[bunnygirllover45]

Being colorblind and also an artist sucks because I have to pray to god that I'm using the right colors all the time and doubt myself at least five thousand times during the process. My biggest fear is one day saying "Ah yes their hair is blonde." and someone replying "Wdym. It's green."

[sweetteaanddragons]

Lauriel

When Lauriel is growing up, she knows her older sister is a better singer than her. This is not because she's heard her sister singing all that much; her sister is fully grown and moved halfway across Aman before Lauriel is even thought of. But it is a thing people tell her of, a little awkwardly, a little gently, whenever she mentions her ambition to be a bard. Her sister is a better singer than her, and her sister is a potter. Ergo . . .

Lauriel takes up the flute. Her sister did not play the flute as a child and her rare letters don't mention it now; her sister cannot be better than her at the flute.

Her mother tells her flatly that this does not mean her sister wouldn't have been better at it, had she ever tried.

"It takes a lot of dedication to your craft to be a bard," her father says, a little more gently. "It's a very competitive field."

Left unsaid, but very much heard, is that Lauriel, of course, is far too flighty to have that sort of dedication.

It is not the first time they have had this conversation.

It is the last, because Lauriel vows to all the Valar that she won't set foot on the farm again until she's the greatest bard the Noldor have ever seen.

It does not take her long at the university in Alqualonde to learn that she is almost certainly never going to be so much as one of the best ten bards the Noldor have ever seen. This does not, however, stop people from still enjoying her music - or, for that matter, from enjoying her dancing, her conversation, her skill at the competitions that are all the rage at parties, and so she never lacks invitations to just about any event in town.

She's friends with everyone, and she hasn't written a single letter back to the farm, and she tells herself she doesn't care that none have come from there for her.

She doesn't talk to any of her friends about that.

She does talk to the woman with the tense, tight shoulders at the current party, swooping in to rescue her from the circle of jabbing fools around her; she's not sure why the other woman needs rescuing from the discussion of the night's musical entertainment, but it doesn't matter; she doesn't need to understand to recruit her to make up the numbers at Lauriel's table for cards.

Aranel is laughing when Prince Makalaure, of all people, comes by their table, which is how Lauriel learns that the woman she rescued is Prince Makalaure's wife.

He sees her flute in its case beside her and asks to hear her play.

He compliments her when she's done. Invites her to another party the next week.

Lauriel, of course, says yes.

She's never political. She's never really bothered about any of it.

But she starts to fall into his circle; their music is so passionate, so innovative, and she likes the way they circle around each other. They're dedicated to each other in a way the endless sea of her other friends aren't.

So when she hears someone being rude about his father, of course she speaks up; for all she knows Prince Feanaro is crazy, but that doesn't give anyone the right to be cruel about it.

She gets offered a job at the university in Tirion, and she thinks Makalaure recommended her for it; she finds out later he praised her skill with people as well as her music when asked for his opinion on the posting.

She finds other people start assuming she's political, even though she still doesn't much care whether they're allowed to sail back to Beleriand or not. She does care, though, about people being rude to her friends, and apparently that is political now, so political she is.

One of her friends is shocked that she's gone this long without hearing Prince Feanaro speak, so even though she still doesn't really care, she laughs and lets them drag her along to his next one.

She gets it now.

Why half of Tirion follows him and why half of Tirion thinks he's crazy.

She still doesn't really care. Even after the Incident - well, that was wrong, of course, but she doesn't see why people have to be rude to Makalaure and Aranel about it.

When the darkness comes, she goes with Feanaro's camp, of course. Almost all of Makalaure's circle does.

Partially because at least Prince Feanaro has a plan. Partially because everyone else is doing it.

Mostly because she hears Makalaure swear the Oath, and -

And her oath is not so burdensome a thing. She cannot go back to the farm; she has accepted she will never be able to go back to the farm. But she could still see her parents if they would come to her, if they would meet her elsewhere, if either she or they would ever just send a letter.

She feels it, though. Always, she feels it.

She wishes she had told him. She hadn't, ever; she hadn't known how to look at the actual greatest bard the Noldor have ever produced and admit to her adolescent ambition. But if she had swallowed her pride and told him - if he'd been warned -

She follows him.

(It is four ages later that she tells him at last; when he asks her, as they prepare to sail with Elrond, what she thinks of at last returning home.

"Oh, home's not really a place," she says in surprise. Home has been people for the past four ages of the world, and she has no intention of leaving those people now. "I suppose I'll have to wait and see if my parents choose to visit; I can't go to them unless they've moved."

This catches his attention. "Whyever not?"

"Well," she says, studiously not looking at him. "I swore an oath.")

(It is midnight when Elrond finds a furious Maglor correcting a beleaguered Lauriel's pitch in the garden.

"Are you planning on making our plea to the Valar for your brothers in the form of a concert?" he asks in bemusement. There is precedent, he supposes, with Luthien, but he would have thought Lauriel would have had more patience with the fevered practice if it were the case.

"It is no true teacher who cannot guide a student to surpassing himself," Maglor says grimly. "And it is no true prince who does not return loyalty. Lauriel will be the greatest bard the Noldor have ever produced."

"I don't want to be," she says in some desperation. "I really don't. I don't care if I can't go back to the farm."

"You should have the option," Maglor says firmly. "Now try again.")

[surreal-duck]

I'll make myself look even cuter, so come find me, okay?